Abstract. – A Japanese archery (kyūdo) tournament is a cosmological event. The 1,388 archers come into the archery gallery in groups of five, take their places facing the targets, and follow an eight-steps shot, which includes setting the body and the hands into the correct position, drawing the bow, aiming, shooting, and lingering in this final position for an instant before leaving the gallery. After many hours, only one archer, the one who had shot perfectly, remains. The rigorous practices of kyūdo harnesses tendencies available within a cultural world of immanence, such as the potentiality of resonance, repetition with slight differences, thereby affecting the body and the world. A world of immanence cannot draw on its exterior in order to grow, since it has no exterior, nothing transcends it and thus expanding can only derive from its interior. By generating a multiplicity of connections, kyūdo enlists these tendencies of that world to become a powerful transformative tool. [Japan, archery, immanence, resonance, Deleuze, Sanjūsangen-dō Temple]